Featured News

September 05, 2019 President Biddy Martin announced that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will visit campus Thursday, October 3 where she'll meet with students and hold an onstage conversation in Johnson Chapel.

Amherst in the News

MSNBC’s Chuck Rosenberg devoted an episode of The Oath podcast to an in-depth conversation with Rob Spencer '83, former criminal chief in the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, who led the team investigating and prosecuting 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui is to date the only person ever charged and convicted in a US courtroom for his role in the 2001 terrorist attacks that claimed 2,977 lives.

Captured Moments

Amherst Magazine

In the Summer 2019 issue, we get a glimpse of what it's like for journalist Marietta Pritchard to travel with her husband, English professor Bill Pritchard ’53, what ideas sociologist Anthony Jack ’07 has for how colleges can improve how they work with disadvantaged students, the history of the ABC House, and more.